Episode13

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OfS has finally published its assessment of English providers’ finances – and the forecasts look shaky. Our guests discuss the implications, along with a new report on cybersecurity, and another on the value of vocational degrees. Plus Chris Skidmore calls App Britain!, our correlation quiz and more Hidden History of HE.

For our correlation quiz we’re trying to discredit an old chestnut – the idea that providers that recruit proportionally more full time first degree students over the age of 21 are more likely to see these same students achieve a good degree. We’ve plotted the percentage of student intake over the age of 21 for one year against the proportion of students over 21 that attained a first class or 2:1 degree.